How much solar energy does it take to run a giant digital billboard 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year?

City Hall’s council chambers were filled to the brim Monday night — mostly full of people to speak against settlement of a lawsuit by Lamar Advertising. Though the item was scratched from the agenda, residents aired their views during public participation.

The International Association of Fire Fighters -- which represents more than Boillboard 290,000 fire fighters and emergency medical personnel -- is asking for the Orlando billboards that link Democrats with 9/11 to come down immediately.

Mike Meehan claims he never expected so many people to pay attention to the billboards that he put up around Orlando -- the ones that feature the Twin Towers burning next to the slogan: "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat."

A battle of nature versus commerce is being waged quietly in the legislature over a proposal to allow billboard owners to cut more trees around their signs.

A private homeowner was fined $50,000 after he refused to remove an illegal billboard from his freeway-fronting house, as a result of a legal ruling that’s expected to boost The City’s quest to cleanse San Francisco of hundreds of advertising signs that are up without permits.

It was meant to be a throwback to the days of romantic Sunday drives — a mural painted on the side of a red barn urging passing drivers to “See Bellows Falls,” a town whose Main Street conjures up bygone days.

The Montana Department of Transportation is appealing a court decision that favors an advertising company in a dispute over an electronic billboard.

The Montana Transportation Commission hosted a public hearing in Billings on Monday night on a proposed amendment to allow electronic billboards along state roadways.

People came from as far as Kalispell to voice their opinion, and those who are opposed to the digital billboards believe the signs distract motorists and disrupt the Big Sky landscape.

"What I hear from a lot of constituents is that this is not what we want our city to look like...I don't think we want to be driving through the state of Montana and looking at electronic signs" sais former Billings City Council member Nancy Boyer.

In 2002, LA banned any new billboards from going up in the city. Since then, an estimated four thousand have been put up by advertising companies who have ignored the law, which obviously the city's billboard inspectors—"a tiny, and some say incredibly inept, group"—have never bothered to enforce.